noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spectator sport (= one that people enjoy watching )
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Football is the most popular spectator sport.
spectator sport
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Life is not a spectator sport.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sport
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Sport may be taken too seriously; high-performance spectator sport is arguably too central to our lives already.
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Treasure Island could accommodate an athletic center for soccer, rugby and small-scale spectator sports .
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport .
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Marina took charge of Lucy, and she relaxed: Marina drawing people out was spectator sport .
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Like I said, it's a spectator sport .
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Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport .
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More than £1 billion is bet on greyhound racing each year in what is Britain's most popular spectator sport .
■ VERB
become
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While one group holds their image still, the rest of the class briefly become spectators , an audience.
watch
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The garrison, too, had taken to watching the spectators through telescopes, above all to see what they were eating.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Spectators cheered and clapped as the ship came into the harbor.
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I'm not playing myself, I'm just a spectator .
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Over 30,000 spectators turned out for the women's basketball match against Zaire.
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Someone was juggling in the street, and a small group of spectators had gathered to watch.
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The game was watched by over 50,000 spectators.
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There are no facilities for spectators at the pool.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And spectators cheered as the couple walked arm in arm from Winchester cathedral.
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At Caen Musgrave went to a regatta, where seven thousand spectators lined the dockside.
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Giants planners have claimed that a preponderance of ballpark spectators will use transit or walk.
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Many people were killed; four white spectators were unintentionally killed by stray bullets.
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Once again, 2, 200 spectators jumped to their feet.
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The jury ran a gantlet through spectators to get in the courthouse.
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There was a great cheer from the spectators.
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There were few visiting spectators and there was no singing or chanting.